Public Environmental Data Partners in the News.

• [April 2025, NPR Here and Now] Trump officials removed web tools that interpret environmental data. Volunteers are racing to rebuild them

• [April 2025, The Straits Times] Volunteers on ‘right side of history’ fight Trump data purge

• [April 2025, NextGov Op-ed] America’s Digital Infrastructure Belongs to You

• [March 2025, Click2 Houston] Executive order removing environmental justice tool creates challenges for homebuyers

• [March 2025, New York Times] Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. They’re Racing to Copy It.

• [March 2025, The New Yorker] The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge

• [March 2025, Forbes] The Data Heroes Racing To Save Environmental Data From The Trump Purge

• [February 2025, MIT Technology Review] Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites

• [February 2025, Salon] Trump is gutting environmental data, obscuring climate and pollution risks to the public: Deleting websites and ignoring scientific data threatens to undo clean air and water regulations

• [February 2025, National Security Archive] Disappearing Data: Trump Administration Removing Climate Information from Government Websites

• [February 2025, Inside Climate News] ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump

• [February 2025, Context] As Trump hits delete, the race is on to save LGBTQ+, climate data

• [February 2025, IEEE Spectrium] Saving Public Data Takes More Than Simple Snapshots

• [January 2025, Inside Higher Ed] As Data Goes Off-Line Under Trump, Researchers Are Uploading Backups

• [January 2025, 404 Media] Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

• [January 2025, The Verge] Donald Trump’s data purge has begun

• [January 2025, E&E News] Groups archive environmental justice data scrapped by Trump

• [January 2025, Journalist’s Resource] Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites